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  Posted by Roy Schneider on May 10, 2006 at 12:32 am

  Hi All:
  First let me say this forum has been my savior more times than I can count! Now for the question at hand. I shot a commercial in DV 24P. I edited the spot in Final cut on an NTSC 8 bit line. I will be outputting to Beta SP, but I do not have a deck. If I save the master as a quick time movie on a firewire drive, and take it to an Avid house can they output it for me? And is there any pitfalls I should look foward to?
  Thanks for your input as always. Long live the Cow!!!
  Roy

  Michael Hancock replied 20 years ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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  Arnie Schlissel

  May 10, 2006 at 1:38 am

  You’ll need to ask the Avid house what they can or can’t do, or what kind of files they can accept. We can’t see their gear from here.

  Arnie
  https://www.arniepix.com
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  Bret Williams

  May 10, 2006 at 3:08 am

  [Arniepix] “We can’t see their gear from here.”

  Wait, there it is. The dusty box in the corner.
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  Espnetboy3

  May 10, 2006 at 4:27 am

  I think what the person is asking is if most avids can detect the quicktime file and I guess re render it in the avid timeline so it can be sent to the deck.
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  Roy Schneider

  May 10, 2006 at 7:41 pm

  Thanks for the insight. I was really asking if an Avid Adrenaline can take a quicktime movie into it’s timeline, and spit it out.
  Thank you again for all of your help.
  Roy
  Long live the Cow!
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  Godard24p

  May 12, 2006 at 10:23 pm

  avid ds nitris systems have no problems importing a quicktime and outputting to a betacam sp format. just did one recently for a music video. “give it up” by soil now playing at music.yahoo.com
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  Michael Hancock

  May 13, 2006 at 4:45 am

  Any Avid can import a quicktime, drop it into a timeline and play it back out. Even better? The only render time you’ll have to wait for is the conversion from a quicktime file to an OMF file (Avid converts all files to OMF, whether you’re digitizing or importing). Want to make it really easy on the dub house? Render your movie out using the Avid codec of their choice. It will make importing much, much, much, much, much faster. Call and ask which codec they prefer (for example, Meridien systems use the Meridien codec, there uncompressed and compressed, etc…), then download it from the Avid site (www.avid.com).

  Mike. (Sneaking over from the Avid forums to learn a little something about Final Cut.)

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